Eastern Coachella Valley: Returning home is personal

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The Desert Sun – Many eastern Coachella Valley natives are returning. Their mission? To advocate for their community

…Rural communities across the country typically experience a “brain drain,” seeing young, upwardly mobile individuals go on to college and later seek work in cities with better work opportunities. But the picturesque eastern Coachella Valley, with its rich and proud history of farm labor rights, housing activism and campaigns against school discrimination, has inspired many to return home after going away for college in the last decade…